Kerstin Schwenkschuster

Competencies, Personality, Learning Environments | NEPS Competencies
Doctoral Students' Representatives

Vita

10/2023 – Today
Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Working Unit NEPS Competencies
10/2021– 09/2023
Master's degree in Psychology (M.Sc.) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)
10/2018– 07/2021
Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (B.Sc.) at the University of Trier

Research interests

  • reading comprehension in adolescence
  • development of reading comprehension
  • language comprehension
  • metacognition

    • Selected presentations and lectures

    2025

    Schwenkschuster, K., & Lenhart, J. (2025, August 23 - 24). Unpacking reading comprehension: Key (meta-)cognitive predictors in German adolescents [Other]. 29th Pre-Conference of the junior researchers (JURE) of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Graz, Austria. https://www.earli.org/events/jure2025
    Schwenkschuster, K., & Lenhart, J. (2025, December 11 - 12). Beyond the simple view of reading: Cognitive and metacognitive predictors of reading comprehension in German adolescents [Poster presentation]. 10th International NEPS Conference, Bamberg, Germany. https://www.neps-data.de/neps-conference2025
    Schwenkschuster, K., & Lenhart, J. (29. September - 1. Oktober 2025). Leseverständnis in der Sekundarstufe - Eine Untersuchung (meta-)kognitiver Prädiktoren [Vortrag]. 20. Tagung der Fachgruppe Pädagogische Psychologie (PAEPS), Jena, Deutschland. https://www.lifbi.de/de-de/Start/Aktuelles-Medien/Veranstaltungen/_info_/details/48746/20-tagung-der-fachgruppe-paedagogische-psychologie